Overview
- Hannoun’s arrest was thrown out by the Court of Cassation, which sent the question of precautionary custody back to the Tribunale del Riesame in Genoa.
- He remains jailed in Terni while the review court decides if he must stay in custody or be released under different measures.
- The ruling also covers three other defendants who are still detained, while two others arrested in December had already been released.
- Defense lawyers welcomed the outcome and said the high court rejected a prosecution bid to add Israeli intelligence files that the review court had earlier excluded.
- Hannoun, accused in December of financing Hamas through his charity, has denied wrongdoing as past probes were archived and banks from 2021 to 2023 froze accounts after alerts from Israeli authorities.